Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-03-29
SOCIETY NOTES.

Miss Waite has gone to Annapolis for visit
Miss Eleanor Foster, daughter OF Hon. John W.
Foster, went yesterday, to New York city for a
Van SantyOOrdS.
Mr.. and Mrs. John R. Mclean went over to New
York to-day.
Mrs. ex-President Tyler will see her friends at
MT. Lachlan Tylers, On 18th street, on Thursday
afternoon.
Senator and Mrs. Spooner have returned from
part OF April.
That there are large number OF Washington
people going abroad this season was demonstra-
TED Yesterday by the eager listeners who gathered
times. 1t was at an afternoon reception and one
lady said 1t was strange that nobody ever wrote a
detail OF the things necessary for a sea voyage:
the 1mpedimenta OF sea voyage, as it were sYou
want to wear pair OF congress CATERS" said this
shepherdess OF the ocean, in response .for there is
hda1 dist d In Inc pending over 70 button
mer worse than yourself. Every small comfort
Is such relief from the dreadful nausea that pos
horrible feeling. OF 1t. Pounded ice helps
little; 1t sort of paralyZeS the stomach,
only; but 1t Is better to eat something. though
you throw IL up again, for the retching upon
emptiness is eXhauSttng. Be sure and buy YOUR
steamer chairs before sailing; the steamship com
panieS ought TO provide them, but they do not
You store them in Liverpool until your return
provide me blue cloth wrapper with plating
about the bottom OF it, SO that 1t will look as
ulster, that button upon me, and hood with an
elastic in 1t, to cover over the hair-very pretty
ones can be found in New York; then carry warm
shawls and nuDia to tie about my neck. And il
you value your comfort do not fail to wear pair
of wooden stockings, else your legs will be very
cold and over them you must wear pair OF thick
cloth drawers never wear any corset, but just
wrap me up in these garments like mummy.
Whatever else you forget let it not be square Of
stout linen With pockets in 1t, like shoe bag.
Tack it upon the Wall OF your Stateroom, and put
into 1t the pocket combs, brushes, bottles,
needles pins atnS
might possibly require. 1t Is no use to lay
out things loose for convenience, for at the first
urch OF the vessel away they all go, and you will
never get trace OF them again on that voyage. My
plan has always been to stay upon deck all day,
and have the stewards bring me up something to
eat, and never go into the saloon. As many times
as have crossed am always sick. always think
what fool am TO venture the voyage, but then
and do not remember the discOmforts OF the cross
ing. Another thing you will lind great luxury
is small leather pillow. l cover one with black
silk and carry it With Inc constantly. In Germany
they use cotton pillows. and many stiff neck
have had trying to sleep Upon them. Before leav-
pooed, and dressed high upon my head, in puf1s,
and then l only brush it up every day from the
nape to the top OF my head. One is not able to
comb ones hair. Oh, that is only few OF the
things l could tell for your guidance" said the
sprightly wife of much-travelled American min
entranced. delighted with the practical sugges-
lions, so freely given and so gratefully received
Gen. Z. +. Beale, who has been seriously i'll dur
ing the past week. has been declared by his physi-
fined to his room, but expects to be about In few
days. The attack was an acute disorder that only
the most heroic treatment and Skillful nursing
could overcome. Gen. Beale returned from Cali
fOrnia fortnight ago.
Baron Tavera, the new minister from Austria,
who has arrived here is not stranger in the city.
Mr.. Tavera, for that was his title Ihen was here
In Gen. Grants time. The social leaders at that
time were Mrs Fish, the Frelinghuysens, and the
sherman's, &c; Gen. Beales house, always hos
raj and Mrs. Porter were frequent entertainers
Baron Tavera is fine musician and a brilliant
performer upon the piano. De will be, therefore,
doubly welcome TO our music-lOving society
circles.
The wife OF Admiral Harmony has returned
| from Elizabeth. N. j., where she went to attend
the funeral OF her sister.